Gentoo's GitHub
account has been hacked and is temporarily locked down by
GitHub support. The Gentoo team has identified the ingress point, and the
repositories with malicious commits have been reset. According to Gentoo,
"This does NOT affect any code hosted on the Gentoo infrastructure. Since the
master Gentoo ebuild repository is hosted on our own infrastructure and since
Github is only a mirror for it, you are fine as long as you are using rsync
or webrsync from gentoo.org."

Raspbian 2018-06-27 has been released. This new version includes a setup
wizard, a new PDF viewer, updated Chromium browser to version 65 and more.
See Simon Long's release
announcement for more details, download links and a video run-through on
how to update an existing image.

Kubernetes
1.11 was released this week, marking the second release of the
year. Key new features include IPVS-based in-cluster service load balancing
is now stable; Core DNS is now available as a cluster DNS add-on option;
Kubelet configuration is now in beta; and more. The Kubernetes team notes
that "the features in this release make it increasingly possible to plug any
infrastructure, cloud or on-premise, into the Kubernetes system." You can
download it from GitHub.

Eighteen Chromebooks from Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Dell—all based on
Intel Apollo Lake—to receive Linux app support. According to xda
Developers, "as the change has only just landed, Canary and Developer
channels will see this first in the coming days and weeks. Stable or Beta
channel users will have to wait until Chrome OS version 69."

Databricks, founded by the creators of Apache Spark, announced this week
its partnership with RStudios, the providers of a free and open-source
integrated development environment for R, "to increase the productivity of
data science teams". According to the announcement, "RStudio provides the
most popular way for data science teams to analyze data with R through open
source and enterprise ready tools for the R computing environment. By
integrating both solutions, data scientists can easily use RStudio from
within a Databricks implementation."